Wednesday, September 18, 2013

I’ve heard a lot of talk about how anime today are so “detailed” and
“beautiful”. For me it’s hard to see it, at least when I compare it to
cels. In my opinion Japan made the most gorgeous cels, in their detail
style and color. Their appeal for me goes much farther along than with
digital coloring.

Within each single shade, there are what I like to call permutations
within the colors. When animated, going from cel to cel, you can see a
sort of flicker of life between then. There are endlessly more colors
inside the apparent one than there would be in the flat colorization of
tra-digital anime. The colors are so rich in cel animation, they can’t
just be copied.

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

I was thinking about opening this article with some sort of thoughtful essay on dragons and their place in popular culture, but you know what? That's basically unnecessary. Dragons are cool. Everyone knows it. Here are my three favorites. So there.